Ok wait for it wait for it. Probe becomes less endowed after run in with Ram. The Probe lost control resulting in the crash....
What do the numbers all mean ? Really !
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The shameful things is, the Ford Probe was actually a pretty good car relative to its class. Everyone was just so afraid of what might happen to them if they bought one, so they didn't. Marketing department really F***ed over the sales on that one.
I remember reading somewhere that it was all marketing.
GT350 was appx 350 steps but it "sounded right ". The GT500 was bigger and badder than the gt350 so it "sounded right" to refer to it as the GT500. The galaxy 500 was Ferds "mid" line car. It would appear as if 500 was half way to their top line vehicle and leaps ahead of their base line car.
I digress;
Bigger and Bolder is better; drawing more attention when marketing the vehicle. RAM vs D100, or SUPERDUTY vs F250 or F350. Or adding RT to everything including minivans although there is nothing road and track about them. Its about making the customer feel they have something special. Surely my SS really no better than any other F41 and 305 powered Monte LS when side by side and new. But that urethane nose and wing sure made GM some extra $$ and there sure is nothing Super Sport about it ROFL
GT350 was appx 350 steps but it "sounded right ". The GT500 was bigger and badder than the gt350 so it "sounded right" to refer to it as the GT500. The galaxy 500 was Ferds "mid" line car. It would appear as if 500 was half way to their top line vehicle and leaps ahead of their base line car.
I digress;
Bigger and Bolder is better; drawing more attention when marketing the vehicle. RAM vs D100, or SUPERDUTY vs F250 or F350. Or adding RT to everything including minivans although there is nothing road and track about them. Its about making the customer feel they have something special. Surely my SS really no better than any other F41 and 305 powered Monte LS when side by side and new. But that urethane nose and wing sure made GM some extra $$ and there sure is nothing Super Sport about it ROFL
the Ram has the worst rating for a front end crash for 2016 pick ups so they need to change the name to Dodge Fold
I think the 442 was always a little weird, becuase you could get it with a 3-speed auto. So I guess a 342?
Some magazine named the ram the most unsafe vehicle for 2015-16, can't remember who, but I do remember reading that.
One of the bosses at work has a 2015 Ram 1500 4 door. And one day we were out in the parking lot
when he was leaving and I saw a puddle of oil under his truck. Only 27K miles on it.
When he backed it up the oil was black as coal. And I asked him how often do you change the oil in this thing?
He said every 4 K. And it turned out to be just a loose oil filter.
When he starts it up the valves clatter for about 4 or 5 seconds. 5.7 litre Hemi.
when he was leaving and I saw a puddle of oil under his truck. Only 27K miles on it.
When he backed it up the oil was black as coal. And I asked him how often do you change the oil in this thing?
He said every 4 K. And it turned out to be just a loose oil filter.
When he starts it up the valves clatter for about 4 or 5 seconds. 5.7 litre Hemi.
I can't/won't dispute this, but we never really saw many MX6s (Mazda's parent version) on the road around here either.
My guess is that Ford had too many coupes on the market at the time...Escort, Mustang, Tbird, Probe. Probe was probably the Edsel of it's day...decent car, but no real target audience without taking away from existing market share (Edsel was pulling buyers from either Mercury or Lincoln.)
It was supposed to compete with cars like the Toyota Celica, Mazda MX6, Honda Prelude, Chrysler Laser, Geo Storm and the Mitsubishi Eclipse. Ford by far did the best of all the domestic brands in the new class designed to compete with the new FWD Japanese 'sports' cars. The Celica and Prelude were better than the Probe IMO but not by much. Probe was certainly was a better car than the god awful Chrysler Laser and the GM-wannabe Geo Storm. I think the MX6 was better than all of them, just a shame it didn't sell.
That was "Galaxie". There must be an oddball marketing story behind the spelling.
500 was the number of feet it was behind when a Chevy Nova won at the strip.
Wonder what the "XL" stood for? Ooops, maybe that's off-topic ....
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